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ATLAS, in Greek mythology, the " endurer," a son of the Titan lapetus and Clymene (or Asia), brother of Prometheus. Homer, in the Odyssey (i. 52) speaks of him as " on; who knows the depths of the whole sea, and keeps the tall pillars which hold heaven and ear ...

ATLAS MOUNTAINS, the general name for the mountain chains running more or less parallel to the coast of North-west Africa. They extend from Cape Nun on the west to the Gulf of Gabes on the east, a distance of some 1500 m., traversing Morocco, Algeria and Tunis ...

... and years before the birth of Solon, and its armies had overrun the lands which ATLAS— ATLAS MOUNTAINS bordered the Mediterranean. Athens alone had withstood them with success. Finally the sea had overwhelmed Atlantis, and had thenceforward become unnavigable ...

ATELLA, an ancient Oscan town of Campania, 9 m. N. of Naples and 9 m. S. of Capua, on the road between the two. It was a member of the Campanian confederation, and shared the fortunes of Capua, but remained faithful to Hannibal for a longer time; the great par

ATHIAS, JOSEPH (d. 1700), Jewish rabbi and printer, was born in Spain and settled in Amsterdam. His editions of the Hebrew Bible (1661, 1667) are noted for beauty of execution and the general correctness of the text. He also printed a Judaeo-Gennan edition of

... e. For the history of China by the last-named writer he was employed to make an atlas, which was published separately at the Hague in 1737. In i73$and 1736 he brought out two treatises on the figure of the earth; but these attempts to solve geometrical problem ...

... responding foramina in the vertebrae above, lies in a groove on the arch of the atlas, and enters the skull through the foramen magnum, where it joins its fellow to form the basilar artery; it gives off muscular branches to the deep muscles of the neck, spinal ...

... wn southern skies, when Johann Bayer published at Nuremberg in 1603 a celestial atlas depicting twelve new constellations formed from the rude observations of navigators across the line. In the same work, the current mode of star-nomenclature by the letters of ...

... ea Rossica, ou paleontologie de la Russie, 3 vols. (Stuttgart, 1852-1868), with Atlases.

... nt in those days — one was nude by Hadrian. Sc« Sartoriu-i von \\.iltcrshauscn, Atlas del Alna (Leipzig, 1880); viaix, C>trta \'oka*olo[i«i t lopofraphicit deU'Etna (showing lava •trauni up to 1892); O. de Lorenxu, L Etna (Bergamo, 1907). ETNA, a borough of Al ...

... rbertson in The Distribution of Rainfall over the Land.* ""' On plate 19 of the Atlas of Meteorology, by J. G. Bartholo- "°,a°,u mew and A. J. Herbertson, Dr Koppen has furnished maps showing the months of maximum rainfall and the seasons of maximum and minimu ...

... ortant oasis of the Moroccan Sahara, ten days' journey south of Fez, across the Atlas. It is celebrated for its large and luscious dates, to the successful cultivation of which, soon after the arrival of an ancestor of the reigning dynasty of Morocco (hence ca ...

... rodies of mythological stories./ in 1644. Its name was derived from its sign of Atlas supporting the globe. Near it were two less important theatres, " The Rose," opened in 1592 by Henslowe, and "The Swan" (see below), opened in 1598 and partly owned also by H ...

... 3); Clarence King, Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (7 vols. and atlas, Washington, 1870-1880); George M. Wheeler, Geographical and Geological Exploration and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (7 vols. and 2 atlases, Washington, 1877-1879) ; an ...